Vanity case



M. KANE VANITY CASH April 2, 1940.

Filed Dec. 6, 1938 Mar f/ ne Kan e INVENTOR a ATTORNEY. I

Patented Apr. 2, 1940 -nmrso stares 2,196,017 VANITY CASE Martino Kane,New York, "N. Y., assignor, to Helena Rubinstein, Inc., New York, N. Y.,a

corporation of New York i Application December 6, 1938, Serial No.244,142 1 Claim. (01'; 220-20) This invention relates to improvements invanity cases of the type embodying a plurality of compartments, whichare hinged together to form a compact unit when closed, and which swingto open position to make the contents of each compartment readilyaccessible.

The object of my invention is to provide a vanity case comprising threecompartments hinged together in such a manner that they are superposedin closed position to form a casing and in open position permit ofbringing the bottom surfacesof the two outer compartments into a commonplane, whereupon the third intermediate compartment is held in aposition at right angles to said common plane, said third compartmentbeing provided with a reflecting cover opening into a position at rightangles to said common plane and to its own closed position.

I accomplish this object by means of a vanity case, one embodiment ofwhich is des cribedin the specification, set forth in the appendedclaim, and illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawing, inwhich: v

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved vanity case, showing thecompartments thereof in open positions; I

Fig. 2 is a sectional view of one. of the compartments and its hingeconnection with the other compartments; 1

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the vanity case in closed position.

Referring to the drawing, the vanity case comprises three compartmentslll, II and [2, I0 and 12 being the outside compartments and-ll theintermediate or inner compartment. A vanity comprising compartments IIand I2 is well known, the novelty of the present invention residing inthe construction of compartment I0 and its combination with the othercompartments ll and |2.- Y

Compartments H and I2 each comprise a square shaped frame havingupstanding side walls [3 and closed face M. The open faces of the twocompartments II and I2 face each other and along the free edges formingone set of sides the latter are hinged together by means of a hingeconnection i5. The interior of the compartments H and I2 may be arrangedto accommodate powder, rouge andv a double sided mirror cover l6 hingedto the compartment II on an axis at right angles to the hinge connection15, the purpose of the construction being that when the two compartmentsare brought together they will form a more or less completely 5 closedunit.

irigidly in position at right angles to said common The thirdcompartment I0 comprises an outg side frame having upright sides I? andoutside wall 5 8, which corresponds to the face walls! of the other twocompartments, and which carries a clasp l9 at its outer side wall toengage over 5 the outer sides of the other compartments to .hold thethree "compartments together in the closed position of the vanity. Thecompartment l t is hinged to the compartmenti l by meansof a hingeconnection 2% arranged between the edge of 10 the wall I! and an off-setportion of the corresponding wall 13 at the corner thereof with the faceHi.- This arrangement of the three compartments enables the same toswing one over the other in superimposed positions to bring them to 15closed position, as 'illustratively exemplified in Fig.3.

When the vanity is opened and the bottom faces M and it are placed on ahorizontal support, the compartment His held in vertical po- 20 sitionand the outer mirror face of cover iii presents itself to the user in aconvenient vertical position. When the cover it is opened it swings onits hinge about a vertical axis into a position at right angles to itsclosed position, whereby 25 the inner mirror or face of cover l6presents itself to the user in. a convenient-manner.

Having now described'my invention and the manner in which the same maybe used, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 30

A vanity case comprising'three compartments of substantially the sameoutline and being superposed in closed position of the casing with thesurrounding side wall of the intermediate com partment constituting aportion of the outer wall of the casing and each of said compartmentshav ing an open top, a flat closed bottom and an upstanding surroundingsidewall, the closed bottoms of the two outer compartments facingoutwardly, two hinges connecting the top edges of 40 the side walls ofthe two outer compartments to corresponding points: at the top andbottom edges, respectively, of the third intermediate compartment, thehinge-carrying side walls of the outer compartments being-so related andproportioned 45 with respect to each other, that the bottom sur faces ofsaid outer compartments can be brought into a common plane'when the caseis opened and the third intermediate compartment is then held plane, anda mirror cover for said intermediate compartment hinged thereto on anaxis at right angles to the hinges connecting the three compartments.

MARTINE KANE.

